Researchers publish details of multiresistant HIV patient

Opinions on registering trial details: a survey of academic researchers

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a set of items related to study design and administrative information that should build the minimum set of data in a study register. A more comprehensive data set for registration is currently developed by the Ottawa Group. Since nothing is known about the attitudes of academic researchers towards prospective study registration, we ...

Chemoattractants attract HIV researchers

I n this issue of the Journal of ExperimentaI Medicine, Loetscher et al. show that receptors for ~-chemokines are upregulated when T lymphocytes are activated by interleukin-2 (1). This paper will be of considerable interest not just to those who have worked for some years to identify conditions whereby chemokines could attract T ceils, but also to HIV researchers and conceivably to retrovirolo...

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In which journals do active researchers of palliative care publish their articles?

Dear Editor: The final question that a researcher asks once his or her work is completed is ‘‘which journal should I send this article to?’’ It is recommended that researchers publish their articles in one of the 3,700 leading world scientific journals that are included in the Science Citation Index (SCI); the highest impact factor (IF) is specified according to the Journal of Citation Report, ...

Publish or perish: strategies to help rural early career researchers increase publication output.

INTRODUCTION Researchers are challenged to publish or perish. A range of barriers to writing can result in sub-optimal productivity, particularly for early career researchers. Researchers in rural areas may face additional challenges of distance and limited access to colleagues. Implementing strategies to address some of these obstacles was identified as a priority for a group of early career, ...